US 11,996,668 B2
Laser ignition device
Tomohiro Ishikawa, Kariya (JP); and Kenji Kanehara, Kariya (JP)
Assigned to DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed by DENSO CORPORATION, Kariya (JP)
Filed on Sep. 22, 2020, as Appl. No. 17/027,870.
Application 17/027,870 is a continuation of application No. PCT/JP2019/005546, filed on Feb. 15, 2019.
Claims priority of application No. 2018-056611 (JP), filed on Mar. 23, 2018.
Prior Publication US 2021/0003108 A1, Jan. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. H01S 3/10 (2006.01); H01S 3/04 (2006.01); H01S 3/06 (2006.01); H01S 3/094 (2006.01); H01S 3/0941 (2006.01); F02P 23/04 (2006.01); G02B 5/00 (2006.01); H01S 3/00 (2006.01); H01S 3/091 (2006.01)
CPC H01S 3/0608 (2013.01) [H01S 3/0401 (2013.01); H01S 3/061 (2013.01); H01S 3/094053 (2013.01); H01S 3/094061 (2013.01); H01S 3/09415 (2013.01); F02P 23/04 (2013.01); G02B 5/001 (2013.01); H01S 3/005 (2013.01); H01S 3/0092 (2013.01); H01S 3/091 (2013.01); H01S 2301/203 (2013.01)] 1 Claim
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A laser ignition device comprising:
a laser oscillation optical system configured to produce a pulsed laser light;
a condensing optical element configured to condense the pulsed laser light into a combustion chamber;
a housing internally containing the condensing optical element; and
an optical window provided distally with respect to the condensing optical element in the housing and configured to transmit the pulsed laser light, wherein
the pulsed laser light is shaped as a ring around an optical axis at least at a light passage position in the optical window,
the laser oscillation optical system includes an axicon lens configured to transform incident light into outgoing light shaped as the ring around the optical axis,
the laser oscillation optical system includes an excitation light source configured to generate excitation light, the axicon lens configured to receive and transform the excitation light into the ring-shaped outgoing light, a collimator lens configured to transform the ring-shaped outgoing light into collimated light parallel with the optical axis, and a laser resonator configured to be excited by the excitation light received as the collimated light to emit the pulsed laser light, and
the laser resonator includes an inert medium formed in an area including the optical axis and a cylindrical medium formed around an outer periphery of the inert medium, and a refractive index of the cylindrical medium is higher than a refractive index of the inert medium, and the pulsed laser light undergoes resonance in the cylindrical medium.